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Shell Oil accidentally spills hundreds of thousands of pounds of toxic gas in Deer Park

2015-08-12 03:07:40| Waste Management - Topix.net

On Sunday morning, hundreds of thousands of tons of toxic gas were accidentally released from the Shell Oil facility in Deer Park. According to reports from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality , 326,166 pounds of butadiene escaped through an open valve on a spherical tank between 10:40 am and 11:35 am.

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Ex-employee alleges unreported oil dumping, chemical spills at Boise...

2015-07-24 10:18:43| Waste Management - Topix.net

The city of St. Helens and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality said this week they are looking into claims that toxic materials were improperly disposed of at the Boise White Paper mill three decades ago, after a former millworker said he had firsthand knowledge of a number of possible violations. The purported whistleblower, who also spoke to the Spotlight on condition of anonymity, said he was part of a work detail that dumped 'hundreds' of 55-gallon drums of oil laden with polychlorinated biphenyls in an area of the property, which was later paved over and had a chlorine generator building placed on top of it.

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Oil spills from Petrobras pipeline into Brazil coastal area

2015-06-19 21:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Oil spilled from a pipeline linking a main Atlantic Ocean terminal with a refinery near Rio de Janeiro on Friday, Brazil's state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA said. The spill contaminated a coastal wetland area and leaked into the ocean, a spokesman for the union representing employees at the refinery said. The narrow coastal region where the spill occurred is in Rio de Janeiro's Costa Verde or "Green Coast" - one of Brazil's most beloved tourist regions and home to one of the last...

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Fossil fuel memes: oil spills are a beach

2015-06-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Life on the beach isnt always a vacation. Here are some postcards that nobody would want to send, courtesy of fossil fuels

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Finding California oil spill's cause could take months

2015-05-22 11:29:25| Oil & Gas - Topix.net

The operator of a broken oil pipeline that fouled a California shoreline says it could be weeks or even months before investigators are able to determine what caused the break and subsequent spill. Crews have yet to excavate the broken piece of pipeline, which under the law must be done in the presence of federal regulators and a third party, officials with Plains All American Pipeline LP said at a Thursday night news conference at the Santa Barbara County beach where the spill occurred two days earlier.

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